 | Edward Alfred Pollard - 1863 - 324 頁
...Burnside, urging him to hold his position, and as the messenger was riding away he called him back—"Tell him if he cannot hold his ground, then the bridge,...the bridge ! If the bridge is lost, all is lost." The enemy held the bridge, but of other portions of the field we retained possession. Varying as may... | |
 | Markinfield Addey - 1864 - 574 頁
...send them I cannot hold my position for half an hour." Porter's corps was the only one in reserve left to the army, and it would have been dangerous to have...and before it was quite dark the battle was over. Alluding to the "important movement" deputed to Burnside, McClellan reports, if it "had been consummated... | |
 | Edward Alfred Pollard - 1864 - 414 頁
...sinking in the west, he dispatched orders to Gen. Burnside, urging him to hold his position, and as the messenger was riding away he called him back —...the bridge ! If the bridge is lost, all is lost." The enemy held the bridge, but of other portions of the field we retained possession. Varying as may... | |
 | 1864 - 356 頁
...at any cost. I will send nim Miller's battery. I can do nothing more. I have no infantry."* Then as the messenger was riding away he called him back....the bridge, to the last man! — always the bridge I If the bridge is lost, all is lost." The sun is already down ; not half an hour of daylight is left.... | |
 | Thomas Prentice Kettell - 1865 - 872 頁
...aid in offensive operations, and replies with a peremptory order to hold the bridge at all hazards: "Tell him, if he cannot hold his ground, then the...always the bridge! if the bridge is lost, all is lost." He, however, detached General Morrell, with nve thousand men, to Burnside, to aid in holding the bridge,... | |
 | Frank Moore - 1866 - 654 頁
...at any cost. I will send him Miller's battery. I can do nothing more. I have no infantry." Then, as the messenger was riding away, he called him back....the bridge ! If the bridge is lost, all is lost." The sun is already down ; not half an hour of daylight is left. Till Burnside's message came it had... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - 1866 - 662 頁
...at any cost. I will send him Miller's Battery. I can do nothing more. I have no infantry.' Then, as the messenger was riding away, he called him back....the bridge ! If the bridge is lost, all is lost.' " The sun is already down ; not half an hour of daylight is left. Till Burnside's message came it had... | |
 | J. T. Headley - 1866 - 640 頁
...at any cost. I will send him Miller's battery. I can do nothing more. I have no infantry.' Then, as the messenger was riding away, he called him back...the bridge. If the bridge is lost, all is lost.'"* The bridge was held — darkness soon covered the field, and the great battle was over. If Burnside... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - 1866 - 688 頁
...Battery. I can do nothing more. I have no infantry.' Then, as the messenger was riding away, he called Mm back. ' Tell him if he cannot hold his ground, then...the bridge ! If the bridge is lost, all is lost.' "The sun is already down; not half an hour of daylight ia left. Till Burnside's message came it had... | |
 | J. T. Headley - 1866 - 774 頁
...at any cost. I will send him Miller's battery. I can do nothing more. I have no infantry.' Then, as the messenger was riding away, he called him back...hold his ground, then the bridge, to the last man — alivays the bridge. If the bridge is lost, all is lost.'"* The bridge was held — • darkness... | |
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Then, as the messenger was riding away, he called him back. " Tell him if he cannot hold his ground, then the bridge, to the last man ! — always the bridge ! If the bridge is lost, all is lost. 
